The Inner Art: Korean Screens

by Evelyn McCune

English, Korean

107 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1983

About the author

Evelyn Becker McCune was born in Pyongyang, Korea, the daughter of Methodist missionaries. She was raised primarily in Korea, but received her university education in the United States. She attended Albion College in Michigan, and Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia before earning a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1930. After completing her studies, she returned to Korea and taught at Seoul Foreign School from 1930 to 1932. In 1933 she married George McAfee McCune, who was also born in Korea to missionary parents. The couple relocated to the United States, and in 1941 George earned a Ph.D. in Asian history from UC Berkeley. After his death in 1948, Evelyn returned to Berkeley, completing a master’s degree in history in 1950, with a focus on Korea.